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I usually code in more estoteric bits of tech and problems which I didn't expect ChatGPT to do well in but I tried it at work on a standard backend stack (Java,

by yw3410 3y ago

I usually code in more estoteric bits of tech and problems which I didn't expect ChatGPT to do well in but I tried it at work on a standard backend stack (Java, Ivy, Ant) and it was absolutely _terrible_. It kept making stuff up and then I kept correcting it. I cannot understand how people are using it for work?!

hunter-gatherer 3y ago
It depends. I've gotten some use out of it recently but I have found I have to give it prompts more akin to pseudo code. I'm not a developer, let alone a java developer, but actually got some mileage with chatgpt writing a ghidra script today. So I wrote down specifically on a notpad with pencil/paper and identified the inputs and outputs I thought of need and different methods and what not. I then started passing it prompts and got some working java back. For me, this was useful because I almost never program in Java, and so simple things like declaring a string with `String foo` I would normally have to go look up again. Of course, it wouldn't be useful or able to do what I wanted if I didn't already u derstand programing concepts and what not.